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Op naar het FLL World Festival in St. Louis in de VSSun, 07 May 2017 22:37:42 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.8FIRST conferencehttp://thelegohackerz.nl/index.php/2017/04/26/first-conference/
http://thelegohackerz.nl/index.php/2017/04/26/first-conference/#respondWed, 26 Apr 2017 23:27:41 +0000http://thelegohackerz.nl/?p=334The FIRST conference is hold during the World Festival. We gave a presentation on integrating the Panasonic Grid-EYE sensor in the EV3 enviroment.

]]>http://thelegohackerz.nl/index.php/2017/04/26/first-conference/feed/0Blog 2: Visiting Chicagohttp://thelegohackerz.nl/index.php/2017/04/25/blog-2-visiting-chicago/
http://thelegohackerz.nl/index.php/2017/04/25/blog-2-visiting-chicago/#respondTue, 25 Apr 2017 12:56:47 +0000http://thelegohackerz.nl/?p=305Read More]]>Before traveling from Chicago to St.Louis we had one day to spend in Chicago. Due to time differences we all got up early in the morning, but in the evening we were exhausted

Our trip began using the metro, but the rest of time we walked through the city and along the chicago river. We made some beautiful photos there.

There is also a Trump tower in Chicago.

On the pier.

The 3rd highest building in Chicago is the John Hancock building. Constructed in 1968 it still looks quite modern. You can go to the 94th deck at 314 meter to see the view over Chicago. As it was a clear day, we had a magnificent view.

From there we walked to the Old Town. This part of the town was the rebuild after the big fire in 1871 by mainly German immigrants. There were a lot of small cafe’s and restaurants in this region.

Lastly we visited the Lincoln park, where Leon had his first taste of the meme beverage Mountaindew. He was astounded.

On the news we saw that Saturday 23rd of April was one of the most crowded days on Schiphol airport. We took a safe margin and were present on the airport 3 1/2 hours before our plane would depart.

Luckily for us, there were almost no queues when we arrived at Schiphol and we were at our gate at half past 9.

At the security control we had to unpack the suitcase with the EV3 robots. Everything was OK.

After 9 hours of flying, watching movies and doing puzzles, we arrived at 14.00 local time at Chicago airport.

From there it was about a 1 1/2 hour voyage by metro to our apartment.

Traveling from the airport to our apartment place was quite some experience. The metro looked a bit shabby, but was efficient.

This is the house we rent in Chicago. It is an AirBnb. We have a whole floor in this building with our own kitchen.

After a long day of travelling we had a dinner at the Mexican Cocula Restaurant. The servings where very large. Even Leon didn’t finish his meal fully!

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http://thelegohackerz.nl/index.php/2017/04/24/blog-0-packing-the-lego-attachements/#respondMon, 24 Apr 2017 02:19:38 +0000http://thelegohackerz.nl/?p=281For our trip to St.Louis we needed to take all our Lego as hand luggage with us. We did not trust to check it in. After carefully wrapping the lego in buble foil, we filled the suitcases up with mais spacers.

]]>http://thelegohackerz.nl/index.php/2017/03/22/update-hulpstukken/feed/0Panasonic GridEYE connected to EV3http://thelegohackerz.nl/index.php/2017/03/17/grideye-connected-to-ev3/
http://thelegohackerz.nl/index.php/2017/03/17/grideye-connected-to-ev3/#respondFri, 17 Mar 2017 20:43:05 +0000http://thelegohackerz.nl/?p=203Read More]]>Can the GridEYE sensor be connected to the EV3 Mindstorms? Yes, it can and it is actually not that difficult. This post shows the progress that has been made on the hardware integration.

The first prototype was a breadboard project were we connected the Panasonic GridEye developers board to the EV3.

To make things more fance, a PCB was designed. This is what it looks like. The size will be 46 x 32 mm.

These are the SMD (surface mount device) components to assemble a number of these boards.

This is the sensor board equiped with all the component and the GridEYE sensor.